DYEING COLORS

DYEING COLORS

By Andy Weddington

Saturday, 04 April 2026

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.  - C. S. Lewis

Remember PAAS egg decorating kits?

Sixty years ago therein, basic colors: yellow, orange, red, blue, green, purple [These days there's more kits and colors.]

We used cans for dyeing vats and teaspoons - because there was only one cheap plastic handler in the kit and it didn't work - to handle the eggs.

We dyed solid colors.

With candles we drew simple designs and wrote first names best we could so the shell would resist staining. 

And we dipped eggs in more than one vat to experiment with color. 

Great family fun around the kitchen table on Saturday evening before Easter. 

Fond memories! 

Sunday morning we went to church. 

When thinking of Easter, color first comes to mind. 

Then hollow milk chocolate rabbits.

This morning arrived email from a retired Marine friend. 

A link did not having anything to do with dyeing eggs but it did have something to do with church. 

The article was about SecWar's recent relief of the Army Chief of Chaplains - Major General William Green, Jr. 

That happened a couple few days ago. 

As expected, SecWar the target of arm-chair analysts, critics, haters, know-it-alls, and particularly media - all of them losing it. 

I read the article - nonfiction, objective insight as to why the General was relieved. https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2040168098276454581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2040168098276454581%7Ctwgr%5E7530c56860a8e439e5dc74a0bdfdbf94bd74c697%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F787487%2F

Make up your own mind. 

Black was not a color in the PAAS kits of my youth; but possible (at least gray) if dipping egg in three or more vats.  

We made yellow, orange, red, blue, green, and purple eggs. Some interesting in between. Some with white stars, zig zags, happy faces, and our names. 

In reply to the email ...

Orange you glad for Executive Summary: Black Green now blue for White leading purple not being yellow and media red.

Happy Easter!